The question was raised on Monday during the Supreme Court (SC) hearing over the Sunni Ittehad Council’s (SIC) appeal against an ECP decision not to allocate reserved seats to it in the national and provincial legislatures. Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Qazi Faez Isa, who leads the 13-member full bench, responded to Justice Mandokhail by […]
Israel must halt its illegal settlement expansion and hold to account those responsible for extremist settler violence a statement from a Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) spokesperson said. We are clear that actions by Israel to weaken the Palestinian Authority must stop. We call for longer-term measures to be put in place to ensure […]
Passengers were informed of a delay of several hours on the ground in Turkey and were not allowed to exit the plane. Due to the Israel-Hamas conflict, all direct flights from Israel to Turkey have been suspended. The aircraft required refueling but one of the airport workers refused to refuel it, causing further delays, according […]
South Korea was still analyzing the launch and did not immediately have confirmation whether there were any casualties or damage to North Korean property military spokesperson Lee Sung-joon told a briefing. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff earlier said the North fired a short-range ballistic missile that flew about 600 km (373 miles) and a […]
A 13-member full bench led by Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa is hearing the case, which, according to some key bench members involves the interpretation of the Constitution. The ECP’s counsel, Sikander Bashir Mohmand, will resume his arguments supporting the ECP’s decision. The counsels for the SIC have already presented their arguments and […]
Israeli tanks which moved back into Shejaia four days ago fired shells toward several houses leaving families trapped inside and unable to go the residents said. Speaking at a weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his stance that there is no substitute for victory in the war against Hamas. We […]
Senegal became the first country in the region to implement voluntary tests, suspecting that a number of some 1,300 deaths — according to a Saudi tally — are down to a respiratory syndrome ailment such as COVID-19. A Togolese government statement on Friday said hajj pilgrims must undergo compulsory COVID tests and “limit contacts, wear […]
Five members of a family were sleeping when their house was washed away by a landslide in Malika village in Gulmi district, about 250 km (156 miles) west of Kathmandu, according to Dizan Bhattarai, a spokesman for the National Disaster Rescue and Reduction Management Authority “Bodies of all five have been recovered,” Bhattarai told Reuters, […]
Justice Shahid Karim issued five SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) in a written order which surfaced on Saturday, in response to a complaint lodged by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) judge in Sargodha. The judge alleged harassment after reportedly declining to meet officials from an intelligence agency. Former LHC Chief Justice Malik Shahzad Ahmad Khan had taken […]
On May 22 the IHC dismissed a petition seeking the disqualification of former prime minister Imran Khan for concealing his alleged daughter Tyrian White. A three-member bench comprising Justices Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, Arbab Mohammad Tahir, and Saman Rafat Imtiaz took up the petition after a gap of almost a year. The court issued the order […]
